1 A nd Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

ثُمَّ انحَنَى يُوسُفُ فَوْقَ أبِيهِ، وَبَكَى عَلَيهِ، وَقَبَّلَهُ.

2 A nd Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.

وَأمَرَ يُوسُفُ أطِبّاءَهُ الخاصِّينَ بِأنْ يُحَنِّطُوا أباهُ. فَحَنَّطَ الأطِبّاءُ إسْرائِيلَ.

3 A nd forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

وَأمضُوا أيّامَ التَّحنِيطِ الأرْبَعِينَ. وَبَكَى عَلَيهِ المِصْرِيُّونَ سَبْعِينَ يَوماً.

4 A nd when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

وَلَمّا انتَهَتْ فَتْرَةُ الحِدادِ، تَحَدَّثَ يُوسُفُ إلَى بَيتِ فِرعَوْنَ وَقالَ: «إنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَنِي وَرَضِيتُمْ عَنِّي حَقّاً، فَتَكَلَّمُوا مَعَ فِرعَوْنَ وَقُولُوا لَهُ

5 M y father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die; in my grave which I have dug myself in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. And now, let me go up, I pray thee, that I may bury my father; and I will come again.

إنَّ أبِي اسْتَحلَفَنِي وَقالَ لِي: ‹ها أنا أحتَضِرُ. فادْفِنِّي فِي القَبْرِ الَّذِي حَفَرْتُهُ لِنَفْسِي فِي أرْضِ كَنْعانَ.› فَأرجُو الآنَ أنْ تَسْمَحَ لِي بِأنْ أذْهَبَ وَأدفِنَ أبِي، وَبَعْدَ ذَلِكَ سَأعُودُ.»

6 A nd Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

فَقالَ لَهُ فِرعَوْنُ: «اذْهَبْ وَادفِنْ أباكَ كَما اسْتَحلَفَكَ.»

7 A nd Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the bondmen of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

فَذَهَبَ يُوسُفُ لِيَدفِنَ أباهُ. وَذَهَبَ مَعَهُ كُلُّ وُزَراءِ فِرعَوْنَ وَشُيُوخِ بَيتِهِ وَكُلُّ وُجَهاءِ أرْضِ مِصْرَ.

8 a nd all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house; only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

وَذَهَبَ أيضاً كُلُّ بَيتِ يُوسُفَ وَإخوَتِهِ وَبُيُوتِهِمْ، وَلَمْ يَترُكُوا خَلْفَهُمْ فِي أرْضِ جاسانَ إلّا أطفالَهُمْ وَغَنَمَهُمْ وَبَقَرَهُمْ.

9 A nd there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and the camp was very great.

وَخَرَجَتْ عَرَباتٌ وَفُرْسانٌ أيضاً مَعَهُ. فَكانَ جُمهُوراً عَظِيماً جِدّاً.

10 A nd they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan; and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father of seven days.

وَوَصَلُوا إلَى بَيدَرِ أطادَ عَلَى الضِّفَّةِ الشَّرْقِيَّةِ لِنَهْرِ الأُردُنِّ. وَهُناكَ بَكُوا عَلَى يَعقُوبَ بُكاءً عالِياً مُرّاً. وَعَمِلَ يُوسُفُ هُناكَ مَناحَةً لِسَبْعَةِ أيّامٍ.

11 A nd the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and they said, This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

وَرَأى سُكّانُ تِلْكَ المِنطَقَةِ مِنَ الكَنْعانِيِّينَ المَناحَةَ المُقامَةَ عَلَى بَيدَرِ أطادَ. فَقالُوا: «المِصْرِيُّونَ يَنُوحُونَ بِمَرارَةٍ.» فَسَمُّوا ذَلِكَ المَكانَ آبِلَ مِصْرايِمَ، وَهُوَ شَرْقُ نَهْرِ الأُردُنِّ.

12 A nd his sons did to him according as he had commanded them;

وَهَكَذا فَعَلَ أولادُ يَعقُوبَ كَما أوصاهُمْ.

13 a nd his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham had bought along with the field, for a possession of a sepulchre, of Ephron the Hittite, opposite to Mamre.

إذْ حَمَلُوهُ إلَى أرْضِ كَنْعانَ. ثُمَّ دَفَنُوهُ فِي الحَقلِ الَّذِيِ فِي حَقلِ المَكفِيلَةِ قُرْبَ مَمْرا. وَهُوَ الحَقلُ الَّذِي اشْتَراهُ إبْراهِيمُ مِنْ عِفْرُونَ الحِثِّيِّ لِيَكُونَ مَقْبَرَةً.

14 A nd, after he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that had gone up with him to bury his father.

ثُمَّ عادَ يُوسُفُ وَإخوَتُهُ وَكُلُّ الَّذِينَ جاءُوا مَعَهُ لِدَفْنِ أبِيهِ إلَى مِصْرَ، بَعْدَ أنْ دَفَنَ أباهُ. خوفُ إخْوَةِ يُوسُفَ منه

15 A nd when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, If now Joseph should be hostile to us, and should indeed requite us all the evil that we did to him!

ثُمَّ أحَسَّ إخْوَةُ يُوسُفَ بِالخَوفِ، لِأنَّ أباهُمْ ماتَ. فَقالُوا: «رُبَّما يَحمِلُ يُوسُفُ ضَغِينَةً عَلَينا. وَرُبَّما يَجعَلُنا نَدفَعُ ثَمَنَ إساءَتِنا لَهُ.»

16 A nd they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before he died, saying,

فَأرْسَلُوا رِسالَةً إلَى يُوسُفَ تَقُولُ: أوصانا أبوكَ بِهَذا قَبلَ مَوْتِهِ فَقالَ لَنا:

17 T hus shall ye speak to Joseph: Oh forgive, I pray thee, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin! for they did evil to thee. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

«قُولُوا لِيُوسُفَ: لَقَدْ أساءَ إلَيكَ إخْوَتُكَ حَقّاً. لَكِنْ أرجُو أنْ تُسامِحَهُمْ عَلَى جَرِيمَتِهِمْ وَخَطِيَّتِهِمْ.» فَالآنَ أرجُو أنْ تَغْفِرَ جَرِيمَةَ خُدّامِ إلَهِ أبِيكَ. فَبَكَى يُوسُفُ بِسَبَبِ رِسالَتِهِمْ.

18 A nd his brethren also went and fell down before his face, and said, Behold, we are thy bondmen.

وَذَهَبَ إلَيهِ إخْوَتُهُ أيضاً. وَألقَوْا بِأنفُسِهِمْ أمامَهُ وَقالُوا: «ها نَحنُ عَبِيدٌ لَكَ.»

19 A nd Joseph said to them, Fear not: am I then in the place of God?

لَكِنَّ يُوسُفَ قالَ لَهُمْ: «لا تَخافُوا، فَهَلْ أنا اللهُ لِأُدِينَكُمْ؟

20 Y e indeed meant evil against me: God meant it for good, in order that he might do as this day, to save a great people alive.

أنتُمْ نَوَيتُمْ بِي شَرّاً، لَكِنَّ اللهَ نَوَى بِهِ خَيراً. فَقَدْ قَصَدَ اللهُ أنْ يُحَقِّقَ النَّتائِجَ الحالِيَّةَ: أنْ يُبْقِيَ عَلَى حَياةِ كَثِيرِينَ.

21 A nd now, fear not: I will maintain you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke consolingly to them.

فَلا تَخافُوا. وَأنا سَأعُولُكُمْ وَأعُولُ أطفالَكُمْ.» وَهَكَذا طَمْأنَهُمْ وَطَيَّبَ قُلُوبَهُمْ.

22 A nd Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

فَبَقِيَ يُوسُفُ وَبَيتُ أبِيهِ فِي مِصْرَ. وَعاشَ يُوسُفُ مِئَةً وَعَشْرَ سِنِينَ.

23 A nd Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.

وَعاشَ يُوسُفَ لِيَرَى أبْناءَ أفْرايِمَ وَأحفادَهُ. وَنُسِبَ أبْناءُ ماكِيرَ بْنِ مَنَسَّى إلَى يُوسُفَ. موتُ يُوسُف

24 A nd Joseph said to his brethren, I die; and God will certainly visit you, and bring you up out of this land, into the land that he swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

وَقالَ يُوسُفُ لإخوَتِهِ: «أنا أحتَضِرُ، لَكِنَّ اللهَ سَيَهْتَمُّ بِكُمْ وَسَيُخْرِجُكُمْ مِنْ هَذَهِ الأرْضِ إلَى الأرْضِ الَّتِي وَعَدَ بِها إبْراهِيمَ وَإسْحاقَ وَيَعقُوبَ.»

25 A nd Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will certainly visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones hence.

وَاسْتَحلَفَ يُوسُفُ أبْناءَ إسْرائِيلَ وَقالَ: «عِندَما يَأْتِي اللهُ إلَيكُمْ وَيُخْرِجُكُمْ، احمِلُوا عِظامِي مِنْ هُنا.»

26 A nd Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him; and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

وَماتَ يُوسُفُ بَعْدَ أنْ عاشَ مِئَةً وَعَشَرَ سَنَواتٍ. فَحَنَّطُوهُ وَوَضَعُوهُ فِي تابُوتٍ فِي مِصْرَ.